We are experienced managers specialising in leading programmes and projects from vision and strategy through execution to live operations

We have a passion for technology, many of us have rich academic backgrounds in technological and scientific disciplines. We’ve nurtured this passion throughout our professional careers and continued to keep up to date on the latest technology and trends. Our clients not only demand proven ability to deliver complex projects and programmes, but that we have the requisite technical expertise to quickly develop a detailed understanding of the underlying technology.

Cloud

Everyone is moving to Cloud, but in our experience few have a clear strategy for doing so. We have managed over £1bn of Cloud projects in the last 3 years, helping our clients to develop a pragmatic strategy and approach to Cloud adoption that ensures benefits and risks are understood from the outset. Our experience defining, designing, implementing and migrating to Cloud – public, private and hybrid – has yielded a wealth of insight. We can help identify and avoid common misconceptions and maximize the benefits of a cloud transformation programme.

Moving to cloud and not sure why? All organisations have different strengths and capabilities, as do different application and technology platforms. We apply over 25 years of expertise in technology and delivery to assess your organisation’s capability for accelerating to the cloud. Let us talk to you about what you must, could and should not migrate to Cloud, and help to build the right business case.

Reaching the clouds can be a long and complex journey. We are experts at developing robust roadmaps that lead to intelligent and efficient architectures. Recommending private hosting for some applications may seem challenging, but may be the right answer. We will help you plan your journey to put the right things in the right clouds.

Cloud is easy to access, easy to deploy and easy to administer. This may be the case, but fitting such a flexible platform into the confines of an established business and IT operation can be a challenge. Cloud adoption drives closer ties between the business and IT with all areas requiring optimisation to achieve full benefits. We are experts in producing operating models tailored for your organisation and your cloud journey.

Deploying the infrastructure is the easy part, moving your applications quickly and effectively is the challenge. DMW have managed the migration of over 250,000 workloads for a variety of clients and infrastructure platforms. Let us produce a credible plan for you, manage your stakeholders and keep it on track with our smart migration tools.

Cloud benefits are there for the taking, but are only achieved through well-defined and executed programmes. You will need to overcome common cloud delivery challenges such as achieving fast and repeatable deployments, implementing organisational change and rigorous performance and security testing. DMW’s consultants have decades of experience in complex programme delivery for all sizes of organisation. DMW will help you to shape and achieve your cloud transformation objectives.

Cyber

Data security could be critical to the success of your business. Breaches can have lasting damage on corporate reputations and your bottom line. Yet we, the customers, expect 24×7 multi-channel access. How do you provide this convenience, without jeopardising security?

How do you implement the myriad of vendor solutions to ensure sufficient coverage but remain cost effective? How do you address the latest weaknesses highlighted on your audit report? How do you build security into your cloud environment or transformation programme? All questions we are used to answering for our clients; read more about some of our services below:

Perhaps you’ve taken over a security role recently or have reason to doubt the current security state of your IT – either applications, infrastructure, or both. DMW can perform a security health- check and provide you with a targeted and prioritised list of areas to remediate. We can supplement this with a security dashboard which gives you the visibility and confidence that progress is being made.

Keeping data safe and properly controlled starts with the host infrastructure. We have built some of the most secure infrastructure in the UK and are able to tread the delicate balance between having fine-grained control without slowing the pace of your business. We can help you remediate your current infrastructure and suggest changes that can significantly improve the security of your estate. Our expertise extends right across the IT stack including physical security, data centres, networks, compute and storage.

Building secure infrastructure is only the first part of the challenge. Next is maintaining that level of security in operations and in daily use. Understanding how your business uses IT and spotting something unusual is vital. This work needs to be backed by employee policies and behaviours. We can work with you to define operational processes and deploy tools which will help you continually assess and protect your estate by monitoring and reducing risk.

Most of our clients are using Cloud to some extent. Storing valuable data in the Cloud may meet resistance but can often be more secure than your own data centre. We can help you build the cloud ecosystem that can translate or enhance your security policies for your selected Cloud environments. Once you have established your secure footprint in the Cloud, we can help you keep it that way. We have experience of building secure Cloud infrastructure in some of the UK’s largest companies and can help you do the same.

Data Exploitation

Our clients know that data exploitation is critical for them to remain ahead of their competitors, but can struggle with how to use their data effectively. And often, once the business problem is defined, they see a bewildering array of tools, platforms, and technologies available. Which ones to use?

We have experience working with our clients to understand the business challenges they face, and how, combining delivery best practices with the latest technologies, they can be solved. We have built data analytics solutions at scale – unlocking petabytes of data for analysis whilst delivering iterative capability to the users – and at pace – providing real time customer insight in a matter of weeks. Tailoring a solution that is right for you, we will help unlock the power of your data to know your threats, know your customers, and know your costs, positioning you to respond.

Do you need support in setting out your key business challenges, or perhaps already know what use cases you want to address, but do not know how you can use your data to solve them? Do you want to understand how a data exploitation architecture can be implemented within an existing IT organisation, without disrupting your entire business? We can help you set out a roadmap that focuses on realistic outcomes and addresses the challenges that are most important to you. There is no value in data for its own sake, it must be used to create business value. DMW will work with you to set out the business case for data exploitation, and show you how to make the most of your investment, at a pace that’s right for you.

You have a big data platform, but it is not providing you with the insights you need. Your reporting cannot keep up with business need, and is not flexible enough to support all use cases. DMW will help you visualise your data and allow it to be easily combined, manipulated, and presented with minimum overhead. Our talented data scientists, cloud architects, and DevOps specialists will identify the tools you need to unlock your data and start delivering value to the business. DMW has worked on some of the largest implementation programmes in Europe – we understand what technology is necessary for you, and what is needless expense.

We have over 25 years’ experience of working in organisations of all sizes, with complex IT architectures already in place. Most often, the data you need already exists, but is trapped in your organisation. We will work with you to make sure your data capability can keep up with your business needs, and can evolve as quickly as your business does. With today’s rapid pace of innovation, businesses cannot afford to build monolithic platforms with a 10-year return on investment period. DMW will help you assess your current capabilities, and how to improve them, to provide rapid and iterative capability development.

The benefits of unlocking your data must be considered alongside the risks. Easier access by your business can mean easier access by malicious agents. DMW has delivered data platforms in some of the most secure environments in the world, and understands the challenges of ensuring your data remains yours. We can help you assess your security threats, what protection you already have in place, and how you can secure your data from misuse. We will work with you to understand the security level appropriate for you, and how to transform your IT organisation to ensure your data remains secure.

As you embrace data analytics, you need to maximise the value gained from existing data platforms, and what to do to remove any remaining roadblocks to adoption. Or, you may find that your platform is not coping with the volumes of data available, is slowing down, and cannot achieve your performance objectives. DMW can help you gain speed through your processing chain, both via technology and the processes people follow. DMW will ensure that your IT function takes a leading role in enabling new ways of working with data across your business, so that you get the right return on your investment.

Digital Acceleration

Staying one step ahead of the competition is becoming an increasing challenge in the Internet-first world. Increasingly organisations are struggling with “two-speed” IT: legacy systems are bottlenecks to innovation and agility, yet internal and external customers expect broad access to and instant results from their applications. So organisations must adapt and deliver innovative projects.

DMW has a rare combination of the deep technology understanding, political and leadership skills needed to drive this rapid change in organisations. Our technology expertise has been gained through many years of managing application and infrastructure delivery, as well as improving our clients’ infrastructure operations.

Developing the vision is a critical first step on the digital transformation journey. We can help you identify the emerging technologies and tooling that compliments your environment, building a comprehensive strategy for legacy systems and innovative new solutions. Once the vision is on track, our next step is to help you to develop the business case for change, to integrate new technologies and adapt your operating models.

We help our clients to deliver their most critical, complex and challenging technology projects. We pride ourselves on our wealth of experience in delivering all types of packaged applications and custom developments through agile and traditional techniques. Our clients appreciate the way our project managers and architects work as part of their team, focussing on benefits. Whether delivering innovation, reducing cost or growing revenues, we’re single-minded about the project’s outcome.

Implementing new working practices and techniques such as Agile, DevOps, and ‘Infrastructure as Code’ can be complex both technically and organisationally. We will help you to achieve a step change in the pace and reduce the delivery risk of your business change. Clients often ask us to increase automation in application build, test and deploy or help develop closer working relationships between their teams. We know all the latest technologies inside-out but we never forget that empowering our clients’ people makes all the difference.

The DMW Apps platform is a live example of how DMW implements DevOps and is our case study for traceability of requirements into functionality. This proven framework has enabled DMW to collaborate and innovate at pace. We use DMW Apps to develop our software products such as the Eider migration management system, and to showcase how the right tools can work together to increase quality and reduce the cost of development. Key features of DMW Apps include: infrastructure as code, containerisation, continuous integration, hybrid hosting, and security built-in from the start.

Cost Optimisation

All organisations are facing cost pressures and many suffer from a lack of visibility on spend. Typical challenges which result in missed savings include understanding spending patterns (especially across extended supply chains), measuring the impact of changes in cost, inflation and other factors and assessing contract compliance and supplier performance. These inevitably lead to uninformed sourcing and supply management decisions, suboptimal budgeting, forecasting and planning and an inability to maximise buying leverage. To stay competitive, it is vital that you know where you are spending your money and take action. We can help you reduce operational expenditure to improve margins, shift spend from business-as-usual to investment and increase return on investments.

Understanding total spend across your entire organisation, different supplier contracts and technology platforms is a critical first step. DMW are experts in identifying and analysing your expenditure and presenting you with a clear view of cost. We perform big data analytics to help you apprehend enterprise-wide spending, classify spending data at a detailed level and enrich base data with associated legal, finance, procurement and operations. Once in place, we can then automate key spending analysis.

Once you have a detailed insight into your expenditure, the next challenge is identifying where to generate the most saving. We can help you choose the most appropriate course of action to reduce duplication, target supply chains to counter rising costs and plan to modernise technology. DMW helps many of our clients to decide whether to outsource and/or offshore their IT services, specifying the service levels, target operating model and managing the sourcing process. Making decisions based upon best practices can typically shift total spending by up to 25% from cost consumption to investment.

When selecting a vendor it’s critical that both sides understand each other and all elements of their contract. We help service providers understand the current state of our client’s IT and their requirements. At the same time we ensure that end users understand the service providers’ offers in detail. We help to select service providers and help draft the contract and associated schedules. Our clients appreciate the clarity we bring to complex deals to ensure a lasting and successful relationship.

Moving from one service provider to another can be a daunting undertaking. Our clients are often concerned about the risk of impact to their customers and staff. We help them to develop robust plans and manage the process to ensure the new service provider takes control of the service with minimal disruption to service levels.

Contact us

Chris Dean

Chief Executive Officer

Teena Lefevre

Talent Acquisition Manager

Lettie Sturley

Office & Events Manager

Romina Mills

Associate Resourcing Manager

For new business enquiries we will put you in touch with one of our Directors who will take the time to understand your challenges and explain how DMW may be able to help.

Please fill in our enquiry form here and we will ensure that the right person calls you back promptly.